"Incentivize" means giving Apple subsidies by tax breaks, direct payment, or other perks. Seriously? Apple has so much cash that they need entire departments to figure out where to stuff it. So even if Apple builds a plant somewhere in the US, where will it be? Somewhere in a place where talent is located and that typically is in short supply of skilled workers? Or in those places where we have economic wasteland and people need to be trained for a long time before they can work in such a plant? And what does he consider 'big' other than his ego? In order to make a reasonable impact that plant needs to employ 10,000+ long term. And even then the question is why? Why go through all this effort to get what would be low paying jobs? I rather see engineering and R&D centers crop up and keep the Chinese gluing the iPhones together.
What we need is not factories that operate like it is the 50s. We need future proof options, such as turning old coal mines into hydro power plants, steel factories switching away from making beams towards specialized materials that are stronger and lighter. A throwback to the 80s with trickle down Reagonomics won't work, because it never did.
....promised to put Clinton in jail....now it won't happen.....claimed that climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese....now he says it is caused by humans......called others crooked....now his own foundation has to pay back taxes and penalties for spending money on bailing out the Trump clan.....claims that he is the big uniter and is against hate....yet he offends pretty much everyone and has the National Policy Institute salute with "Heil Trump!"....said he would drain the swamp....and put every alt-right xenophobe and anti-semite he could find in the republican establishment into office.
Trump is a liar, a flip-flopping opportunist, nothing else than a Hitler 2.0.
Which morons vote for a guy like that????
Coal from China or South Africa is also much cheaper than US coal. Rather than bank on dirty energy the coal mines should be refurbished to be used as hydro power stations. When there is excess power from wind and solar pump water from tanks in the depth of the mines to storage reservoirs at the top. When there is high demand or both wind and solar do not produce enough use the stored energy to generate power. This is not only the most effective means of storing energy that we have available today, it will also require the skills and expertise of miners to build and operate. I guess this is just too communist for the US.
Not only that, nobody gets fired for buying Microsoft...more likely when buying into Zorin. As iggymanz already pointed out, if it doesn't run a wide variety of Windows software reliably well then it surely is not the "ideal choice for large deployments in businesses, governments, schools and organisations". Unless maybe it comes with a client that supports all features of Exchange.
Linux in general lacks an office package that comes with a decent email client that has a calendaring feature built in. Thunderbird & Lightning is not bad, but Mozilla kicked TB to the curb and Lightning is a pain in the rear for sharing calendars. The FOSS gurus of the world need to fix that. I think it is more likely that we get yet another fork of yet another dysfunctional app that already has 2342423 forks of which 2342420 are abandoned.
Because it is cheap for the power companies. The biggest expense is safe long term storage and that is covered by tax payers. Same applies to any fallout from accidents. The better option for power generation is renewables because they are safer, but not necessarily better for the environment. As for energy storage, use the old coal mines as pumped storage hydro power station. That not only is highly efficient, but also requires the skills and know how of current mine workers to operate the plant.
What is often ignored is the dire need of curbing consumption regardless of how power is generated. A lot can be saved when implementing intelligent technology and better designs...such as a power mains switch on every and all electric devices.
Russia is counted as European country. The determination is made on primarily on where the capital is located and only secondly if the majority of the country is in a continent. Typical contard claims, no clue, but selling non-facts as truth.
When talking about "whites" the group of European immigrants and their descendants is meant. Hispanics are the group of people originating from Central and South America as well as Mexico (around here Mexico is considered North America, other places consider it Central). The point is that the two groups are of quite different origin and different cultural background. It really is not that difficult to understand.
Shhhhh....that fact counteracts the xenophobia of the Trumpists, so it will get ignored no matter how factual you are.
There are a lot of dumb and gullible people out there, otherwise Trump would not have won the majority in the electoral college and Apple would not be selling picture books for 300$ a piece.
Yes, it was economic, because keeping the vast empire together required excessive military spending and took up most of the resources so that for the the general public not much was left. Even the military was grossly underfunded. But that was only part of the issue, one huge aspect was that those in charge had no real clue on how to manage such a large operation. Those before them who did made sure that whatever area they occupied had its needs met and kept its cultural identity. That way much less military force was needed because there was almost no reason for rebellion.
As far as entitled foreigners goes...they were not foreigners, but citizens of the Roman empire. Likewise, many of the Romans were sent into the provinces as governors.
SSDs are now cheap and easy to install....means Apple would be losing money because customers buy the already ridiculously overpriced model with the smallest SSD and then spend a few bucks extra to upgrade with a 3rd party module. That's a no go for Apple. They rather charge 200-400 Dollars more for an upgrade that cost 100 Dollars or less.
The only option here is to stop buying the excessively overpriced Apple stuff. Almost 3k$ for a 15" and you do not even get a lousy USB port. The real kicker is 4-5 weeks shipping time. You'd think with the piles of cash that Apple has they could finally fix their massive production bottleneck. A Windows laptop for 1000 bucks is surely a nice device with all the bells and whistles....and you get three of them for the price of a 15" MacBook.
Even worse, the UI still sucks and the memory leaks that burden FF since v1 are still there. FF now looks like Chrome, smells like Chrome, but does not perform like Chrome....might as well use Chrome. FF's problem is the egotistic dev leadership at Mozilla. One can only hope that funding runs out at some point and they either are forced back to reality or just disappear from the digital world.
I recommend it, too. Bad enough that the uneducated white men ruined the country once. They need to be watched. These people are just weird. Would they have voted for someone else they might have gotten federally funded universities without tuition that currently causes crippling debt. That would give them and their children the opportunity to take part in the modern labor market. No matter how many tax cuts and isolationist BS Trump & Co pull off, those manufacturing jobs don't come back. Where would they go? In factories that were left crumbling since 80's Reagonomics killed off US labor? And even if, how are goods and materials moved when the infrastructure is crumbling?
Gee...seems as if not only Flint has too much lead in the drinking water....
Hey, hey...only to uneducated white men, please. But don't worry. The Republicans are a back stabbing bunch. At the first chance they will impeach their President because they rather deal with the VP...one of the swampies that didn't get drained out.
Not surprised at all. QA is a bad word in the new software industry. Instead of testing and confirming stuff just gets pushed out. I guess those impacted can only quote Samuel Clemens: “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
Nobody gets fired for buying Microsoft. As far as cost goes, in some cases there are both closed source and open source alternatives that are drastically less expensive than what Microsoft has to offer. The support needs for Windows are lower because the world today grew up with Windows. I do not know how LiMux looks and behaves like, but if it would be a spitting image of Windows support expenses will go down. Also, with switching to Linux each and every IT issue in the Munich administration got blamed on Linux, although a good chunk of issues had absolutely nothing to do with that.
I do agree that the Linux world as a whole is mediocre to craptastic on the desktop and especially with interoperating with other systems. About half a year ago I wanted to build a system that made use of excess hard drives so that I can use that system as always on backup storage. I tried various Linux distros and attempted to create network shares that can be easily access from a number of Windows boxes. I don't say it is not possible, but the GUI tools suck, setting permissions was an unmitigated disaster, and after accessing a share on one box I could not access that same share on a different box providing the exact same credentials. I eventually gave up and obtained another Windows license.
Similar issues with my TV card, network printer, and other hardware. Yes, there is documentation out there, but aside from a few we users do not want to compile stuff from source, do not want to type in five yard long command line parameters, and spend significant amount of time to get permissions just right for stuff to work. I admit, I want it to be easy and I want a decent GUI tool. I don't think that is too much to ask in 2016.
While there is some benefit to having different distros, the sheer number is mindboggling. There is a ton of duplicated effort that could be saved when the FOSS world would focus on two or three distros and make those as great as possible in their targeted area. I have no hope that this will ever happen because it would require FOSS developers and project leads to compromise and cut their egos down a notch.
That is the new Trump era where decisions are made based on crap people dream up because it serves their alternate reality.
But wait....Trump cannot be elected president, the entire election system is rigged, millions of people were shipped in to vote, even half a billion dead people cast a vote.
Economic boom? Reagonomics are the main reason why so many manufacturing jobs were lost. The Reagan administration generated double digit unemployment and increased federal spending and debt to never before seen levels.
Maybe I was just missing your sarcasm?
That assumes that whatever wikileaks published is indeed a copy of the original. There was a time where the rebellious web crowd was considered the good guys, the Robin Hoods our era. It now seems more like they are cashing in for destabilizing the world. The true winner is Putin, who will no longer bother with little stuff like Crimea. In May he will march into Berlin, in June in Paris, by that time he will also control everything from Taiwan to Cyprus.
Nothing much. The Reps controlled the house the past six years and accomplished absolutely nothing....except for a total government shutdown at one point.
We can only hope that the Reps keep it that way, otherwise social security will be gone, health care will be gone (Obamacare for sure, the rest will be priced out of it), US corporations and their US jobs will be gone because they can no longer compete without free trade agreements in place, NATO will be gone giving Putin free access to all of central and western Europe as well as the Middle East, and yes, all those folks that pick up our trash, flip our burgers, and deliver our packages will be gone as well...as per Trump, all of those immigrants that are nothing else than criminal rapists taking US jobs.
What we will get is Reagonomics 2.0: tax cuts for the rich who fill their Bermuda bank accounts with more cash while firing more workers. And once double digit unemployment is reached, Trump will be elected for a second term.
It is telling that the first to send best wishes from overseas are Geert Wilders, Marine Le Pen, and Frauke Petry....all right-wing, conservative, xenophobic Nazis....just like Trump. It now becomes apparent, that half the country has a massive lead problem with the drinking water,there is no other explanation for this dimwitted vote by uneducated white men.
OK, then give the police department unrestricted access to the Facebook servers so that they can effectively enforce the law. Still think that is the way to go?
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"Incentivize" means giving Apple subsidies by tax breaks, direct payment, or other perks. Seriously? Apple has so much cash that they need entire departments to figure out where to stuff it. So even if Apple builds a plant somewhere in the US, where will it be? Somewhere in a place where talent is located and that typically is in short supply of skilled workers? Or in those places where we have economic wasteland and people need to be trained for a long time before they can work in such a plant? And what does he consider 'big' other than his ego? In order to make a reasonable impact that plant needs to employ 10,000+ long term. And even then the question is why? Why go through all this effort to get what would be low paying jobs? I rather see engineering and R&D centers crop up and keep the Chinese gluing the iPhones together. What we need is not factories that operate like it is the 50s. We need future proof options, such as turning old coal mines into hydro power plants, steel factories switching away from making beams towards specialized materials that are stronger and lighter. A throwback to the 80s with trickle down Reagonomics won't work, because it never did.
....promised to put Clinton in jail....now it won't happen. ....claimed that climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese....now he says it is caused by humans. .....called others crooked....now his own foundation has to pay back taxes and penalties for spending money on bailing out the Trump clan. ....claims that he is the big uniter and is against hate....yet he offends pretty much everyone and has the National Policy Institute salute with "Heil Trump!" ....said he would drain the swamp....and put every alt-right xenophobe and anti-semite he could find in the republican establishment into office.
Trump is a liar, a flip-flopping opportunist, nothing else than a Hitler 2.0.
Which morons vote for a guy like that????
The bar was set the lowest by Reagan...worst president the US ever had. I expect that this will be eclipsed by Hitler 2.0 aka Trump.
Coal from China or South Africa is also much cheaper than US coal. Rather than bank on dirty energy the coal mines should be refurbished to be used as hydro power stations. When there is excess power from wind and solar pump water from tanks in the depth of the mines to storage reservoirs at the top. When there is high demand or both wind and solar do not produce enough use the stored energy to generate power. This is not only the most effective means of storing energy that we have available today, it will also require the skills and expertise of miners to build and operate. I guess this is just too communist for the US.
... Trump will ramp up coal based energy production big time. Let's make America dirty again!
Not only that, nobody gets fired for buying Microsoft...more likely when buying into Zorin. As iggymanz already pointed out, if it doesn't run a wide variety of Windows software reliably well then it surely is not the "ideal choice for large deployments in businesses, governments, schools and organisations". Unless maybe it comes with a client that supports all features of Exchange. Linux in general lacks an office package that comes with a decent email client that has a calendaring feature built in. Thunderbird & Lightning is not bad, but Mozilla kicked TB to the curb and Lightning is a pain in the rear for sharing calendars. The FOSS gurus of the world need to fix that. I think it is more likely that we get yet another fork of yet another dysfunctional app that already has 2342423 forks of which 2342420 are abandoned.
Because it is cheap for the power companies. The biggest expense is safe long term storage and that is covered by tax payers. Same applies to any fallout from accidents. The better option for power generation is renewables because they are safer, but not necessarily better for the environment. As for energy storage, use the old coal mines as pumped storage hydro power station. That not only is highly efficient, but also requires the skills and know how of current mine workers to operate the plant. What is often ignored is the dire need of curbing consumption regardless of how power is generated. A lot can be saved when implementing intelligent technology and better designs...such as a power mains switch on every and all electric devices.
Russia is counted as European country. The determination is made on primarily on where the capital is located and only secondly if the majority of the country is in a continent. Typical contard claims, no clue, but selling non-facts as truth. When talking about "whites" the group of European immigrants and their descendants is meant. Hispanics are the group of people originating from Central and South America as well as Mexico (around here Mexico is considered North America, other places consider it Central). The point is that the two groups are of quite different origin and different cultural background. It really is not that difficult to understand.
Shhhhh....that fact counteracts the xenophobia of the Trumpists, so it will get ignored no matter how factual you are. There are a lot of dumb and gullible people out there, otherwise Trump would not have won the majority in the electoral college and Apple would not be selling picture books for 300$ a piece.
I'd go for that instead of Hitler 2.0 (Trump).
Yes, it was economic, because keeping the vast empire together required excessive military spending and took up most of the resources so that for the the general public not much was left. Even the military was grossly underfunded. But that was only part of the issue, one huge aspect was that those in charge had no real clue on how to manage such a large operation. Those before them who did made sure that whatever area they occupied had its needs met and kept its cultural identity. That way much less military force was needed because there was almost no reason for rebellion. As far as entitled foreigners goes...they were not foreigners, but citizens of the Roman empire. Likewise, many of the Romans were sent into the provinces as governors.
SSDs are now cheap and easy to install....means Apple would be losing money because customers buy the already ridiculously overpriced model with the smallest SSD and then spend a few bucks extra to upgrade with a 3rd party module. That's a no go for Apple. They rather charge 200-400 Dollars more for an upgrade that cost 100 Dollars or less. The only option here is to stop buying the excessively overpriced Apple stuff. Almost 3k$ for a 15" and you do not even get a lousy USB port. The real kicker is 4-5 weeks shipping time. You'd think with the piles of cash that Apple has they could finally fix their massive production bottleneck. A Windows laptop for 1000 bucks is surely a nice device with all the bells and whistles....and you get three of them for the price of a 15" MacBook.
Even worse, the UI still sucks and the memory leaks that burden FF since v1 are still there. FF now looks like Chrome, smells like Chrome, but does not perform like Chrome....might as well use Chrome. FF's problem is the egotistic dev leadership at Mozilla. One can only hope that funding runs out at some point and they either are forced back to reality or just disappear from the digital world.
....especially in the bloodsucksers from Microsoft.
I recommend it, too. Bad enough that the uneducated white men ruined the country once. They need to be watched. These people are just weird. Would they have voted for someone else they might have gotten federally funded universities without tuition that currently causes crippling debt. That would give them and their children the opportunity to take part in the modern labor market. No matter how many tax cuts and isolationist BS Trump & Co pull off, those manufacturing jobs don't come back. Where would they go? In factories that were left crumbling since 80's Reagonomics killed off US labor? And even if, how are goods and materials moved when the infrastructure is crumbling? Gee...seems as if not only Flint has too much lead in the drinking water....
Hey, hey...only to uneducated white men, please. But don't worry. The Republicans are a back stabbing bunch. At the first chance they will impeach their President because they rather deal with the VP...one of the swampies that didn't get drained out.
Not surprised at all. QA is a bad word in the new software industry. Instead of testing and confirming stuff just gets pushed out. I guess those impacted can only quote Samuel Clemens: “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
They come down on those who are stupid. These students never heard of VPNs, eh?
Nobody gets fired for buying Microsoft. As far as cost goes, in some cases there are both closed source and open source alternatives that are drastically less expensive than what Microsoft has to offer. The support needs for Windows are lower because the world today grew up with Windows. I do not know how LiMux looks and behaves like, but if it would be a spitting image of Windows support expenses will go down. Also, with switching to Linux each and every IT issue in the Munich administration got blamed on Linux, although a good chunk of issues had absolutely nothing to do with that. I do agree that the Linux world as a whole is mediocre to craptastic on the desktop and especially with interoperating with other systems. About half a year ago I wanted to build a system that made use of excess hard drives so that I can use that system as always on backup storage. I tried various Linux distros and attempted to create network shares that can be easily access from a number of Windows boxes. I don't say it is not possible, but the GUI tools suck, setting permissions was an unmitigated disaster, and after accessing a share on one box I could not access that same share on a different box providing the exact same credentials. I eventually gave up and obtained another Windows license. Similar issues with my TV card, network printer, and other hardware. Yes, there is documentation out there, but aside from a few we users do not want to compile stuff from source, do not want to type in five yard long command line parameters, and spend significant amount of time to get permissions just right for stuff to work. I admit, I want it to be easy and I want a decent GUI tool. I don't think that is too much to ask in 2016. While there is some benefit to having different distros, the sheer number is mindboggling. There is a ton of duplicated effort that could be saved when the FOSS world would focus on two or three distros and make those as great as possible in their targeted area. I have no hope that this will ever happen because it would require FOSS developers and project leads to compromise and cut their egos down a notch.
That is the new Trump era where decisions are made based on crap people dream up because it serves their alternate reality. But wait....Trump cannot be elected president, the entire election system is rigged, millions of people were shipped in to vote, even half a billion dead people cast a vote.
Economic boom? Reagonomics are the main reason why so many manufacturing jobs were lost. The Reagan administration generated double digit unemployment and increased federal spending and debt to never before seen levels. Maybe I was just missing your sarcasm?
That assumes that whatever wikileaks published is indeed a copy of the original. There was a time where the rebellious web crowd was considered the good guys, the Robin Hoods our era. It now seems more like they are cashing in for destabilizing the world. The true winner is Putin, who will no longer bother with little stuff like Crimea. In May he will march into Berlin, in June in Paris, by that time he will also control everything from Taiwan to Cyprus.
Nothing much. The Reps controlled the house the past six years and accomplished absolutely nothing....except for a total government shutdown at one point. We can only hope that the Reps keep it that way, otherwise social security will be gone, health care will be gone (Obamacare for sure, the rest will be priced out of it), US corporations and their US jobs will be gone because they can no longer compete without free trade agreements in place, NATO will be gone giving Putin free access to all of central and western Europe as well as the Middle East, and yes, all those folks that pick up our trash, flip our burgers, and deliver our packages will be gone as well...as per Trump, all of those immigrants that are nothing else than criminal rapists taking US jobs. What we will get is Reagonomics 2.0: tax cuts for the rich who fill their Bermuda bank accounts with more cash while firing more workers. And once double digit unemployment is reached, Trump will be elected for a second term. It is telling that the first to send best wishes from overseas are Geert Wilders, Marine Le Pen, and Frauke Petry....all right-wing, conservative, xenophobic Nazis....just like Trump. It now becomes apparent, that half the country has a massive lead problem with the drinking water,there is no other explanation for this dimwitted vote by uneducated white men.
Schadenfreude means to draw satisfaction from others misery.
OK, then give the police department unrestricted access to the Facebook servers so that they can effectively enforce the law. Still think that is the way to go?